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Revolutionary is for new products, evolutionary is for existing products. Existing iPad owners will probably want to wait until iPad 3 but this new update keeps the product advancing and interesting to new customers. The same has generally held true...
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Charlie Stross commented on
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Dude, I can't change the oil in my car. Does that mean I shouldn't be allowed to drive? (NB: I've never owned a dwelling with a garage, so every automobile I've ever driven has been parked on the street. Which makes tinkering and taking things apart somewhat unfeasible. If I did live in a country where the average dwelling is less than 75 years old -- hence designed with automobile ownership in mind -- I might have tried to learn, back before cars turned into clusters of computers rolling in loose formation. But then, I've never bothered trying to rewire...
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scentofviolets commented on
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OK. Here's how I read your statements. You want to treat an iPad as a COMPUTER. I, and I think Charlie and many others, want to treat it as a device. Windows PCs and Macs are definitely computers. So are most things with a keyboard and display on them. But that's the point of all of this. An iPad is NOT a general purpose computer. OK, here's how I read your statements. You want to pigeonhole me as someone who is insisting that the iPad serve as some sort of general purpose computer. Well, no, I'm not. Especially since other...
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bjacques commented on
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That's the conceptual (sideways or even backward) leap I'm trying to make in deciding whether or not to buy the new iPad (I don't have an old one). I'm used to working with real computers, which this is not, for familiar values of "computer." I have a Mac, used to have a PC, and my work involves crawling around the guts of Cisco and/or Juniper router configurations. But a living room full of old Macs and PCs from which I need to harvest old emails, pix, etc., really drives home how little I need all my shiny electronic toys to...
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bjacques commented on
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Thanks! I'll see if I can find one here. Maybe Mediamarkt carries them....
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brucecohenpdx commented on
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Hierarchical filesystems don't scale well to the number of files and number of attributes that people want to search for them with. For instance, the hard disk on my laptop has well over a million files on it, in tens of thousands of directories, and I'm not doing anything fancy like live-blogging would make the problem of finding the right file several orders of magnitude worse. Most of the time I don't look for things topdown, I run a search for filename (when it's relatively simple) or content. That's especially true when the files contain complex data like images. My...
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